Razor-strop



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P. s'. WOLD.

RAZOR STROP.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 293,994, dated February'lQ, 1884.

Application filed November 19, 1853.

Beit known that I, PETER S. VoLD, a citi zen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and. useful Improvements inRazor-Strops, of which the following vis a specification.

The object of my invention is to furnish a cheap, light, strong, and durable elastic strop for razors, composed of a rigid frame-work having leather or other suitable material placed thereon, and so arranged that the tension of the leather or other material may be easily and quickly varied at will without the use of screws or other means of that or like character.

I have illustrated my invention by the drawings accompanying this specification, in which Figure 1 isl an elevation of the strop when closed and ready for use. Fig. 2 is a plan of the framework of the strop closed, as in Fig. 1,with the leather or other material removed. Fig. 3 is a plan of the twopieces forming the frame-work, detached the one from the other, the dotted lines in Fig. Sshowing also the form of the blank out of which one portion of said frame-work is obtained. Fig. 4. is a plan of the strop, showing the frame-work and leather or other elastic material, with the strop partially open, the dotted lines in Fig. 4. showing the manner in which the two pieces forming the frame-workare placed together.

Like letters refer to like parts throughout the several views.

A is the handle by which the strop is held when used.

B is a blade or bar composed of a thin strip of wood or metal or other suitable material, (I prefer steel or iron,) having a cross bar or head, b, at one end thereof, and holes f placed therein. Handle A, blade or bar B, and cross-head b are fastened firmly and rigidly together.

C is a blade or bar composed of wood, iron, steel, or other suitable material, having a cross-head, c, at one end, and fastened iirmly thereto, and a tongue or projection, F, at the other end, and having also the lip or projection E, as shown by the dotted lines in Fig. 3, on one side thereof. Lip or projection E is bentl or formed over upon the main portion of blade C in the manner shown in the drawings,

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Figs. 1 and 3. TongueFis bent or formed in the manner shown in Fig. 1. The blade C,

when made of metal, has lip E and tongue F,

forming a part thereof, and when made of other material lip E and tongue F are made of metal and attached thereto. I

D is a leather belt, or a belt composed of any suitable elastic material, fastened securely at the ends to cross-heads Z and c.

The manner in which my invention operates is as follows: Tongue F of blade C is inserted in any one of the holes f in blade B, as will be seen by reference to the dotted lines in Fig. 4. Blade C is then turned or made to rotate around tongue F in hole f in the direction shown in Fig. 4. The lip or projectionlwill thus come on one side of blade B, and the main part of blade C will come on the other side of said blade B. Blade C is revolved or turned in the manner shown until blades C and B assume the position shown in Figs. 1 and 2. If tongue F is inserted in the proper hole f, the leather or other elastic material,D,wll beheld firmly and taut and the strop will be ready for use.

I am aware that razorfstrops composed of leather or other elastic materials placed upon arigid frame-work have been heretofore made and used 5 and I do not claim, broadly, the idea of a razor-strop consisting of a belt of leather or other material placed upon a frame-work in such a manner that it maybe made taut or able to learn, all strops of this character as heretofore constructed have necessitated the use of tightening screws or rods, or other comparatively complicated devices, in order to `secure the desired result, and have been expensive in their manufacture, and are not as strong, durable, and rigid as is the razor-strop which is secured by the use of the framework of my improved razor-strop.

Having thus described the object of my invention, the way in which it is accomplished, and the manner of operation of the same, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Batent, is-

1. In a razor-strop consisting of a belt of leather or other suitable material stretched upon a frame, a frame having two pieces of metal or other suitable substance, one of said Vstretched tightly; but, so far as I have been IOO | end thereof, and tongue F, bent in suitable l form at the other end thereof, Withlip or projection E bent or formed as here shown and described, in combination with the leather or other material D, attached to said parts or the cross-heads placed thereon, all substantiall;T as described, and for the purpose specified.

l PETER S. VOLD.

l Wvitnesses: l RUssELL H. GURTIs, l BENJAMIN F. RiorroLsoN. 

